In the long process of writing this book, numerous people were greatly helpful to me.
For their various incisive suggestions, kind encouragements and useful critiques, I wish to express deep gratitude to my esteemed colleagues, Michal Aharony, Stuart Cohen, Guy Elgat, Yuval Eylon, Donny Gluckstein, Nicolás González Varela, Daniel Gutwein, Zohar Kohavi, Guy Miron, Inbal Ofer, Iris Shagrir, Alberto Spektorowski, Bernhard H.F. Taureck and Shulamit Volkov. I thank Harrison Fluss, who read the entire manuscript and made many helpful suggestions. I am very grateful to Max Novick of Routledge for his interest in this project and support in having it published. I am especially obliged to Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, whose generous, wise and abiding assistance and encouragement were invaluable.
Very special thanks to Luis, my Argentinean Yiddishe tate, for help beyond measure. As I was writing this book, I often felt that whatever value this study may hope to possess for understanding the horror of fascism, derives from the lessons he has given me all these years, in his infinitely kind and humane way.
Ishay Landa
Summer 2017